With fears of an Islamist "takeover" of some Birmingham schools by militant school governors, the first correspondent demands "much more clarity in what defines a state school funded by taxation".
The Pakistani clerics, adherents of the same militant school of Islam as the Taliban, had traveled to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban's spiritual headquarters, on a Pakistani military plane.
True, there is, early on, a tumultuous scene in which young Gilles (Clément Métayer) and his militant school- friends face Parisian riot police, batons crunching on youthful bones.
The tape is almost certain to put more pressure on Saudi Arabia to crack down on the militant schools and Muslim preachers whom the al-Saud ruling family has long tolerated.
Girls' schools continue being targeted by militants, schools are blown up, teachers continue to be threatened.
It has delivered prestige (and thus power) to a seemingly inexhaustible supply of local militants schooled on jihad in Afghanistan, against first Soviet and then American invaders.
Jaffar, who oversees a network of pesantren -- Koranic schools that, like the madrassas of Pakistan, produce countless young militants schooled in jihad -- preaches that democracy is "incompatible with Islam" and that Indonesia's 210 million people should be governed under strict Islamic law.
The militants attacked schools, construction companies and marketplaces, appearing to "deliberately favor the use of indiscriminate tactics" in populated civilian areas, in violation of the international laws of war, the report said.
She survived the dramatic assault, in which a militant boarded her school bus in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley and opened fire, wounding two of her school friends as well.
The girl, who was shot in the head by a Taliban militant on a school bus because of her outspoken activism in favor of education for women and girls, was flown to Birmingham in central England from Pakistan on Monday to receive specialized medical treatment and rehabilitation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Although UNRWA spokesman, Chris Gunness stated at the time that there "was zero-tolerance policy toward politics and militant activities in schools," one can only wonder how a chief terrorist was able to work in a school system for eight years without raising any suspicion.
